"Those insouciant Americans who do not fear the police state because they “have nothing to hide” desperately need to read: Home-schooled Children Seized By Authorities Still In State Custody.
In
Police State America, authorities can enter your home on the basis of
an anonymous “tip” that you are, or might be, somehow, abusing your
children, or exposing them to medicines that are not in containers with
child-proof caps or to household bleach that is not under lock and key,
and seize your children into state custody on the grounds that you
present a danger to your children.
The government does not have to
tell you who your accuser is. It can be your worst enemy or a
disgruntled employee, but the tipster is protected. However, you and
your family are not."

– as of October – Obama had thrown whistleblowers in jail for 22 times longer than all other presidents.
Today, whistleblower Barrett Brown was sentenced to 63 months in prison.
So now we’re up to 589 months for whistleblowers. That’s 25 times more time meted out against whistleblowers by Obama than all other presidents combined.

But even that stunning figure understates the savagery of the Obama administration’s war on whistleblowers …
After all, Jeremy Hammond – regarded by many as a whistleblower – was sentenced by Obama to 10 years in prison.
The trial of CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling is proceeding right now … and the prosecution is seeking a lengthy prison sentence.
If Edward Snowden or Julian Assange are ever caught, the government will seek very lengthy sentences.....

Wednesday, 21 January 2015

"The problem is that the ECB has shown, again and again, that it is temperamentally and institutionally timid. These more radical proposals would divide its policy-making board and court political controversy, to put it mildly. They may also be illegal: The single-currency treaty forbids "monetary financing" of governments, and last week's guidance from the EU Court of Justice's advocate general was that sovereign debt purchases were sometimes permissible but subject to conditions. The guidance seemed to rule out coordinated monetary and fiscal expansion (through primary-market bond purchases); it voiced reservations about the bank's retaining bonds to maturity (imposing a limit on the duration of QE).
Legal or not, helicopter money would be a frontal repudiation of the monetary conservatism that Germany's government and others have sought to impose on the bank. The same goes for anything that looked like raising the ECB's inflation target."

"The next crisis will be the currency
pegs against the dollar. Here we have pegs from Hong Kong to the Middle
East. We will have the same problem for as the dollar is driven higher,
thanks to the implosion in the Euroland, these nations will import
DEFLATION from a rising dollar. This will break their backs and force
pegs to collapse around the world. Keep in mind that this will unfold
probably after 2015.75 and help to spiral the world economy into the
worst depression in centuries. Start preparing for a rainy day.
The
rise in the dollar, will be the key to breaking the post-war economy.
It was the flight of capital from Euroland into the Swiss that broke
that peg. We will see in the months ahead the same crisis unfold in the
Middle East and in Asia. This will be accelerated by the emerging
economies who have issued $6 trillion in dollar debt since 2007. As the
dollar rises, they will be forced into the same position as Greece –
unable to pay their debts because the debt keeps rising in cost."

"We should remind you
that just because stocks were the place to be for the last 100 years
doesn’t mean they will be a good place to be for the next 100….or even
the next 10. You see, in the investment world, there is always ‘more to
the story.’ Most of the stock market gains of the last 100 years have
come in the years since 1982. And the backstory of those years is the
tale of a credit expansion gone wild.

Of all the things twisted and perverted by the great credit expansion,
investors’ perceptions are at the top of the list. The money poured in;
almost all assets rose in price. And investors – watching this over 3
decades – came to the conclusion that this is just the way it works.

It’s not. The problem with credit expansions is that they are always
followed by credit contractions. And the bubbly stock prices you see at
the end of the expansion phase turn into the flattened out prices seen
in a depression."

Wednesday, 14 January 2015

"Without question, the most-censored news story of 2014, as determined by
this test — a test that I have been constantly carrying out ever since
the May 2nd massacre that the new Ukrainian Government perpetrated in
Odessa — is precisely the Ukrainian news story: it’s the winner of my
contest. This ongoing news story started with the February 22nd coup, then included the May 2nd massacre which led to Donbass’s secession from Ukraine, and it finally is continuing with this ethnic cleansing of Donbass.
The purpose of the May 2nd massacre was, in fact, to terrify the
pro-Russians in Ukraine’s southeast — especially in Donbass, the most
pro-Russian area — so as to precipitate the secession of Donbass, so
that there would then be an excuse for the Ukrainian Government to bomb
it and so to get rid of the residents there, whose overwhelming votes had clearly made Yanukovych Ukraine’s President.
The Obama regime doesn’t want the people there; it wants only the land
on which they live. It needs this in order to be able to place nuclear
missiles there, aimed against next-door Russia. The Obama
Administration’s game-plan is to keep the land, and to kill the people
who are living on it."

As you will see below, your definition of an “extremist” may be
far, far different from the definition that Barack Obama is using. When you do a Google search, you will find that an “extremist” is defined as “a person who holds extreme or fanatical political or religious views, especially one who resorts to or advocates extreme action.” According to Wikipedia, “extremism” is “an ideology (particularly in politics or religion), considered to be far outside the mainstream attitudes of a society or to violate common moral standards. Extremism can take many forms, including political, religious and economic.”
Please notice that neither of those definitions uses the word
violence. In this day and age, you can be considered an “extremist”
simply based on what you believe, and as you will see later in this
article there are now tens of millions of Americans that are considered
to be “extremists” and “potential terrorists” according to official U.S.
government documents.

and (from Ron Paul)

If
Americans were honest with themselves they would acknowledge that the
Republic is no more. We now live in a police state. If we do not
recognize and resist this development, freedom and prosperity for all
Americans will continue to deteriorate. All liberties in America today
are under siege.

It didn’t happen overnight. It took many years of neglect for our
liberties to be given away so casually for a promise of security from
the politicians. The tragic part is that the more security was promised —
physical and economic — the less liberty was protected.

With cradle-to-grave welfare protecting all citizens from any
mistakes and a perpetual global war on terrorism, which a majority of
Americans were convinced was absolutely necessary for our survival, our
security and prosperity has been sacrificed.

It was all based on lies and ignorance. Many came to believe that
their best interests were served by giving up a little freedom now and
then to gain a better life.

The trap was set. At the beginning of a cycle that systematically
undermines liberty with delusions of easy prosperity, the change may
actually seem to be beneficial to a few. But to me that’s like excusing
embezzlement as a road to leisure and wealth — eventually payment and
punishment always come due. One cannot escape the fact that a society’s
wealth cannot be sustained or increased without work and productive
effort. Yes, some criminal elements can benefit for a while, but reality
always sets in.

Reality is now setting in for America and for that matter for most of
the world. The piper will get his due even if “the children” have to
suffer. The deception of promising “success” has lasted for quite a
while. It was accomplished by ever-increasing taxes, deficits,
borrowing, and printing press money. In the meantime the policing powers
of the federal government were systematically and significantly
expanded. No one cared much, as there seemed to be enough “gravy” for
the rich, the poor, the politicians, and the bureaucrats.